A friend of mine said for the past 3 years all her family give £100 pounds to charity and don't buy for each other. Do you think this is a good idea ?
2007-11-30 07:45:09 · 11 answers · asked by kirst is back!! 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
That is very comendable of them Kirst but if there are children involved how do you explain to them that Santa has given their presents away? A better idea would be to cut down on the amount spent on each present and then the rest that would have been spent be donated to charity. That way everyone benefits.
2007-11-30 21:11:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
We do both - Its so much fun to pick things out for each other and share the excitement of Christmas morning. We give to our favorite charities all year round, and give to Toys for Tots and the Salvation Army at Christmas.
After we open our presents and have breakfast, we spend a few hours at a local restaurant serving. The restaurant serves anyone for free on Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas and we volunteer as wait staff.
2007-11-30 08:48:06 · answer #2 · answered by DSL 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it's a wonderful, selfless thing to do if that's what you want to do. I personally like buying for others if I can afford to. I always try to give a little extra to charities and I especially give of my time to help out the community. That's what the holidays are all about.
2007-11-30 08:31:11 · answer #3 · answered by Erin 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We do things like that in our family, but we make smaller donations to different charities and still get eachother a small amount of gifts. It wouldn't be the same with NO gifts at all, although I do think some families exchange too many gifts!
2007-11-30 08:19:58 · answer #4 · answered by Katie G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dear KK,
When I was a younger man, I drove through a particularly bad part of our city where the homeless slept in cardboard boxes on the sidewalks in the rain and cold. The homeless here included infants and school aged children.
One night I was reading my Bible when I came upon a passage that went something like this, "He who does this for the least does this for me as well."
I've been donating to the Los Angeles Mission, a drug treatment and homeless shelter, for some twenty years. I don't know if my small contribution has helped. I'd like to think so. I hope so.
Peace, Alan K.
2007-11-30 08:54:13 · answer #5 · answered by Alan K 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
lol kirst have you got a sock fetish lmao , seriously though i do what i can for charity throughout the year , and give what i can , christmas is an expensive time and i have cut down on who i give too , but i have kids and you can't be a scrooge at christmas,not to kids i do buy charity cards and pop money into collection boxes though is that mean ?
2007-11-30 07:57:25 · answer #6 · answered by ♥BEX♥ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Give some to charity but if you need socks then give each other socks.
2007-11-30 07:51:47 · answer #7 · answered by Healthy For Him 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is so lovely to do that and it must be cheaper too you could go on holiday with what we all spend.
I always send something in to my own charitys I support.
2007-11-30 08:50:11 · answer #8 · answered by momof3 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
buy gifts for each other and volunteer somewhere
2007-11-30 07:54:55 · answer #9 · answered by jmd72inva 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
got any spare socks .?
2007-11-30 08:01:51 · answer #10 · answered by country bumpkin [sheep nurse] 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋